83°F
weather icon Clear
Filters Reset
1 - 10 of about 17 Results
Content Type
Categories
Tags
Year
Month
older archives
Las Vegas man removed from death row 31 years after first sentence

John Valerio was just 22 when he was first convicted of murder and placed on death row in 1988 for fatally stabbing a 26-year-old Las Vegas woman. But in 2002, after more than a dozen years of imprisonment, an error prompted a federal appeals court to overturn Valerio’s sentence while upholding his conviction.

Suspect in stabbing may be linked to earlier crime, report says

Willie Jackson, the 27-year-old man arrested Friday as a suspect in the Thursday morning stabbing of a woman in the central valley, may have stabbed another victim in the same apartment complex in July, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an arrest report.